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< August 19 2009 at 5:33 PM >
Linda says...

Zac, I was very moved by your story.

And yes, you are right, someone like yourself would never amount to much in Haiti; Even with your beautiful intelligence and wisdom, you would most likely end up unemployed, or driving some kind of truck or car, or worst, working as a geran lakou.

You deserve better and I am glad that you found it. But there are tons of young people in Haiti who are stuck in their hell, with no possibility of a future.

The restavecs in Haiti are not slaves, and cannot be compare with slaves (the idiot white man loves to try this stunt).

What we have in Haiti is a situation of unprotected child labor.

Children in Haiti in general have no government protection.

Tons of young girls, from all social millieus, are molested yearly, and no one says a peep about it. Restavecs are most of the times mistreated, and even when they are with someone who is not mean to them, they are never treated like the person's own child--somewhat like children who fall in the foster care system in the US. However, most of the time Restavecs are treated very poorly.

But than, so are most of the poor people in Haiti.

I recently had a young woman who was working with a friend of my mom's...this woman worked as a maid, and one day she used the iron when she wasn't supposed to and the house lost electrical power.

Well, the woman that she worked for slapped her, and the son punched her in her belly.

The young woman had no real recourse.

All she could do was to leave the job. If she tried to go to the police, she would never work again in that region because all those people sort of know each other.

What was worst is that most of the people I know who heard that story seemed not to care. My mom's friend is still welcomed at everyone's house; she's at all the parties laughing as if nothing ever happen.

I am the only person who actually does not say hello to her.

Zac, I did not see that post that you are talking about.

What choice were you trying to make?

The topic is: sir how is haiti a latin country
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Posted by Linda on August 19 2009 at 5:33 PM



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Dear Lovely Sister, If there are more than one hundred posts on the topic that automatically tells us that many of us express interest in it. It is true that our country has been and for the longest time now going through political turmoil, econom > >
Robert Alexandre, 16-Aug-09 11:19 pm
Dear Lovely Sister, No one said that Haiti`s geographical location has anything to do with its current state of disgrace and shame. I have absolutely no recollections of anyone making such a statement. It is obvious that you are not interested in > >
Robert, 16-Aug-09 11:35 pm
Dear Robert, you are right. I have been rather impatient lately with the bloggers. Because of that I tend to stay away from the blog more and more these days. I cannot stop thinking of the starving children, of the unemployed young men, of the kids w > >
Linda, 17-Aug-09 7:02 pm
Dear Lovely Sister, Let me tell you franckly that i truly truly understand and appreciate your concern. Please don`t get me wrong because of what I am about to tell you and I think you should take it as a piece of advice. You see that Haiti issue > >
Robert, 18-Aug-09 11:21 pm
Linda I read this comment that you posted the other day and I wanted to comment on it but after working a 13 hour shift my mind was running on empty, today was no different but throughout the day at work this matter laid siege to my mind. So I feel i > >
Zac, 19-Aug-09 2:57 am
I can believe you guys are back with this subject. We've discussed it some many times already. The Notebookblogz Haiti Team > >
Notebookblogz.com, 19-Aug-09 11:32 am
Zac What a great uplifting story! Zac believe it or not I somewhat lived that life too. I was only 6 years old when my father died. My mom became mentally unstable 5, 6 months later. We were only three siblings and I was the only boy, the you > >
Tiba, 19-Aug-09 4:27 pm
Zac, I was very moved by your story. And yes, you are right, someone like yourself would never amount to much in Haiti; Even with your beautiful intelligence and wisdom, you would most likely end up unemployed, or driving some kind of truck or car, o > >
Linda, 19-Aug-09 5:33 pm
Tiba I read your story and I relate to the part where you said you would not have changed any of it for the world. I was so traumatized by these experiences that for a long time I suffered from insomnia. Night after night I would lie in bed thinkin > >
Zac, 19-Aug-09 10:26 pm
As you know Linda I'm currently reading "the black jacobins" the book that you suggested. In the book James graphically details the way slaves were treated. The restavec situation is cruel but I agree that it doesn't come as close to the cruel abus > >
Zac, 19-Aug-09 11:31 pm
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